A Review of Smart Clothing in Military

Scataglini, Sofia; Andreoni, Giuseppe; Gallant, Johan

doi:10.1145/2753509.2753520

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“…The Defense and Public Safety sectors are already using wearable computers and smart clothing for access to positioning, sensor or health status data [222,223]. Moreover, in some countries the police and fire fighters have also been using head-mounted cameras for recording events.…”

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Towards The Internet of Smart Clothing: A Review on IoT Wearables and Garments for Creating Intelligent Connected E-Textiles

2018

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Technology has become ubiquitous, it is all around us and is becoming part of us. Together with the rise of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) paradigm and enabling technologies (e.g., Augmented Reality (AR), Cyber-Physical Systems, Artificial Intelligence (AI), blockchain or edge computing), smart wearables and IoT-based garments can potentially have a lot of influence by harmonizing functionality and the delight created by fashion. Thus, smart clothes look for a balance among fashion, engineering, interaction, user experience, cybersecurity, design and science to reinvent technologies that can anticipate needs and desires. Nowadays, the rapid convergence of textile and electronics is enabling the seamless and massive integration of sensors into textiles and the development of conductive yarn. The potential of smart fabrics, which can communicate with smartphones to process biometric information such as heart rate, temperature, breathing, stress, movement, acceleration, or even hormone levels, promises a new era for retail. This article reviews the main requirements for developing smart IoT-enabled garments and shows smart clothing potential impact on business models in the medium-term. Specifically, a global IoT architecture is proposed, the main types and components of smart IoT wearables and garments are presented, their main requirements are analyzed and some of the most recent smart clothing applications are studied. In this way, this article reviews the past and present of smart garments in order to provide guidelines for the future developers of a network where garments will be connected like other IoT objects: the Internet-of-Smart-Clothing.

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Section: Industry Defense and Public Safetymentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards The Internet of Smart Clothing: A Review on IoT Wearables and Garments for Creating Intelligent Connected E-Textiles

2018

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“…The soldier can himself monitor his pulse rate, blood pressure and other parameters through the embedded intelligent systems in the jacket. Intelligent materials are being developed to equip the army of future with uniforms which help in heal, shield, and protect them against chemical and biological warfare [2]. The work is also going on to develop such a uniform that is almost invisible and soft clothing that can become a rigid cast when a soldier break his or her leg.…”

Section: Military and Defense Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

Intelligent Textiles and its applications: An overview

Khatak¹

2020

IJMTST

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Intelligent wearable clothing can be seen as textiles that possess the capability of sensing and responding to environmental changes. The clothing sense the physical activity of the person and his environment, monitor and analyze it, and accordingly attempts to respond in most appropriate manner. Intelligent textiles are laced with embedded electronics sensors and other circuitry into fabric thereby resulting in smart outfits capable of an array of diverse applications. Intelligent textiles find applications in defense sectors, railways, firefighters, police, skydivers, sports-persons and other professional activities. The aim of this study is to highlight the protective applications of wearable intelligent textiles and their significance in the present context.

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“…Exoskeleton brings a lot of benefits for workers to reduce the risk of injury caused by carrying load over a long period of time and it has relatively satisfied effects on the rehabilitation of patients with muscle dysfunction in modern clinics [1][2][3]. A number of studies have indicated that exoskeleton plays an important role in reducing energy consumption for soldiers in military applications although it has not been widely used in the army [4,5]. Distinguished from the traditional rigid exoskeleton which can transfer load to the ground, Soft powered exoskeleton made of flexible materials mainly reduces metabolic cost by assisting the movement of joints [6].…”

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Effects of Joint Assistance on the Muscle Metabolism and Strength in Different States Based on Simulation

Liu

Song

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IEEE Access

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A powered exoskeleton on reasonable design can effectively reduce the metabolic cost during walking. In order to explore the metabolism and muscle strength with powered exoskeleton assisted on joints under different states, we involved seven healthy subjects to walk on level and slope of 5° with different loads (0, 10, 20 and 30 kg), based on which we simulated the states of walking with different assistant torque on joints to analyze the metabolic cost and muscle force. The results demonstrated that the metabolism decreased more with the increase of hip extension assistance on flat and it had a more significant reduction under greater driving moment of hip flexion, hip extension, knee extension and ankle plantarflexion on slope. Both ankle plantarflexion and hip extension devices reduced more energy consumption than other powered devices, between which hip extension assistance increased the metabolic reduction rate significantly, especially on slope. Each kind of powered exoskeleton reduced the strengths of agonistic muscles assisted. In addition, hip extension device greatly reduced the strength of vastus intermedius and ankle plantarflexion device reduced the strengths of rectus femoris and vastus intermedius concurrently. The results predicted metabolism and muscle strength under different assistances in various states, providing advisement for drive design theoretically.

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A Review of Smart Clothing in Military

Cited by 37 publications

References 3 publications

Towards The Internet of Smart Clothing: A Review on IoT Wearables and Garments for Creating Intelligent Connected E-Textiles

Towards The Internet of Smart Clothing: A Review on IoT Wearables and Garments for Creating Intelligent Connected E-Textiles

Intelligent Textiles and its applications: An overview

Effects of Joint Assistance on the Muscle Metabolism and Strength in Different States Based on Simulation

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